Author: Burt L. StandishPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Frank Merriwell in London, Or, The Grip of Doom
Author: Burt L. StandishFrank Merriwell in London, Or, The Grip of Doom
Author: Burt L. StandishFrank Merriwell and the Fiction of All-American Boyhood
Author: Ryan K. AndersonPublisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 1557286825
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Gilbert Patten, writing as Burt L. Standish, made a career of generating serialized twenty-thousand-word stories featuring his fictional creation Frank Merriwell, a student athlete at Yale University who inspired others to emulate his example of manly boyhood. Patten and his publisher, Street and Smith, initially had only a general idea about what would constitute Merriwell’s adventures and who would want to read about them when they introduced the hero in the dime novel Tip Top Weekly in 1896, but over the years what took shape was a story line that capitalized on middle-class fears about the insidious influence of modern life on the nation’s boys. Merriwell came to symbolize the Progressive Era debate about how sport and school made boys into men. The saga featured the attractive Merriwell distinguishing between “good” and “bad” girls and focused on his squeaky-clean adventures in physical development and mentorship. By the serial’s conclusion, Merriwell had opened a school for “weak and wayward boys” that made him into a figure who taught readers how to approximate his example. In Frank Merriwell and the Fiction of All-American Boyhood, Anderson treats Tip Top Weekly as a historical artifact, supplementing his reading of its text, illustrations, reader letters, and advertisements with his use of editorial correspondence, memoirs, trade journals, and legal documents. Anderson blends social and cultural history, with the history of business, gender, and sport, along with a general examination of childhood and youth in this fascinating study of how a fictional character was used to promote a homogeneous “normal” American boyhood rooted in an assumed pecking order of class, race, and gender.
Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia from June 6, 1892-Dec. 18, 1933
Author: District of Columbia. Court of AppealsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 854
Book Description
Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia
Author: District of Columbia. Court of AppealsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
Catalogue of Title-entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, Under the Copyright Law ... Wherein the Copyright Has Been Completed by the Deposit of Two Copies in the Office
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 1752
Book Description
Frank Merriwell in Europe; or, Working His Way Upward
Author: Burt L. StandishPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 336893564X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Reproduction of the original.
Supreme Court Reporter
Author: United States. Supreme CourtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1092
Book Description
The Supreme Court Reporter
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1218
Book Description
The Washington Law Reporter
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 858
Book Description
Includes decisions of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, 1902-1934, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1934-1959, and various other courts of the District of Columbia.